In this review we will talk about the best films of 2008 - according to the psychologists of the site. We will not recall the success of these films at festivals or talk about box office. It is more important for us to draw your attention to these magnificent pictures with the help of a short story about amazing stories that are told in them by talented filmmakers.
We hope that after reading this list, you will want to watch movies that you have not seen.
20. The road of change
The events described in the film took place in the fifties of the last century. The main characters of this story are the most ordinary spouses living in one of the provincial towns.
The April family and Frank Wheeler identify themselves as middle-class, but they believe they deserve more in life and plan to move to the French capital. Heroes do not yet know what tests they will have to go on the way to their happiness.
19. We are from the future
The plot of the picture is happening in parallel in our time and in the past, to be exact - in August 1942. The main characters of the film are "black trackers" nicknamed Alcohol, Chukha, Skull and Borman.
In places where during the war years there were bloody battles with fascists, these people are looking for weapons, documents, orders and medals for the purpose of their further realization to collectors.
Without waiting for themselves, in some documents of wartime, “trackers” stumble upon their photos, and after a few moments they are mysteriously transferred to 1942 ...
18. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Christina and Vicki live in the USA. And the girlfriends decided to relax a little and have fun in Barcelona.
Upon arrival in this charming city, the girls get acquainted with the cute and talented local artist Antonio. And if Vika builds serious plans for this young man, then Christina is more tuned to sexual adventures and new sensations from communicating with an extraordinary Spaniard.
17. Particularly dangerous
The protagonist of the film, Wesley Gibson, was known in his circle of acquaintances and friends with a whiner and a bore who wipes his pants in the office, but one day he finds out about the death of his father, who left their family many years ago.
As a result, Gibson becomes part of a secret society of killers, and his mentor is appointed charming, but very dangerous girl Fox, through which the protagonist turns into one of the most elusive killers ...
16. Bottom Bruges
Professional killers Ken and Ray failed one important thing in the British capital. Their disgruntled chef orders losers to get out of sight in Bruges and not to appear in public for some time.
Once in this quiet, heavenly place, Ray begins to flirt with one of the local beauties, and Ken just idle. The guys did not expect that their arrival in Bruges would be a real disaster for this town.
15. Four Christmas
Beloved Kate and Brad are going to celebrate Christmas with their parents, but the difficulty is that the fathers and mothers of young people are divorced.
Now the main characters of the film will have to solve a difficult task: how to get around all the relatives in one day and not to deprive any of them of their attention.
14. The Dark Knight
Batman goes on the warpath with all evil in Gotham. His comrades in the noble cause of eradicating crime - attorney Harvey Dent and police lieutenant Jim Gordon - help Batman clean the streets of his native city from all sorts of criminals, and together they can do it.
But after a short time, a new evil appears in Gotham, which the Joker embodies in his ugly appearance ...
13. Burn After Reading
Agent of the American intelligence services Ozzie was dismissed from his post as head of the department of the Balkan countries. The former spy gets depressed, and in order to cope with it, he decides to write a memoir in which he is going to post some of the classified information of the CIA.
By chance, the disc with Ozzy's work turned out to be found by the employees of the sports club, who was dreaming of a plastic operation, Linda and her slightly odd friend Chad. This couple is blackmailing a former employee of the American special services for their own selfish interests and misleading the intelligence of several countries of the world at once.
12. The phenomenon 
The film is about a family trying to avoid the real death that all of humanity faced.
People mastered the mass psychosis. Millions of suicides are being committed all over the Earth.
And no one knows the causes of this terrible epidemic ...
11. City of Amber: Escape
In the distant future, people live in deep dungeons and hope that, according to scientists, subsequent generations will be able to reach the surface of the Earth. In order for this to happen, special instructions were developed and sealed in a capsule, but subsequently lost.
Since then, two hundred years have passed, and the girl Lina, on whom the future of all mankind now depends, has discovered the capsule with valuable notes.
10. Operation "Valkyrie"
The main character of this fascinating historical adventure tape is Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg, who became the main initiator and organizer of the assassination attempt on the bloodiest dictator in the history of the world - Adolf Hitler.
In 1944, this man attempted to destroy the Fuhrer with an explosion. To do this, Stauffenberg carried a bomb in his briefcase, but the operation to destroy Hitler ended in failure. The leader of the Nazis was only slightly injured.
9. Whale
In the classroom, where the girl Natalie, who has turned 17 years old, is studying, a newcomer Keith Zetterstrom appears. The first impression about this young man in the main character of the film was negative. It is aggravated by the fact that Kita was appointed partner of Natalie for the performance of laboratory work.
It takes a little time, and the girl realizes that she is in love with a classmate who has mutual feelings for her. But Keith has a secret, and she can interfere with his relationship with Natalie.
8. Hachiko: The most loyal friend
The film is based on real events that occurred in Japan and became known throughout the world. Once, on the way home from work, a college teacher saw a small, beautiful puppy at the train station. It turned out that this cute animal belongs to the Akita Inu breed.
New friends made friends. Every day, the dog escorted and went out to meet the teacher, but when he stopped appearing near the station, a faithful friend began to search for a person close to him ...
7. WALLI (cartoon)
Robot VALLY is engaged in important work - collecting garbage on the Earth contaminated with human waste. It turns out that our planet has become unsuitable for living beings on it, and people moved into space.
VALLI does not assume that in the near future he will be lucky enough to meet true friends, fly in a spaceship and in an incredible way influence the future of all humanity ...
6. Hipsters
The action of the enchanting musical takes place in the capital of the USSR in the 50s of the last century. It was at that time on the avenues and boulevards of Moscow you could see young people who clearly stood out for their bright clothes and unusual hairstyles among the gray mass of their fellow citizens.
They were called stylists. These young people listened to fashionable Western music, were unconstrained in love and wanted to live in a free country.
5. Slumdog Millionaire
The main character of the film is an eighteen-year-old Mumbai slum graduate, Jamal Malik, who decided to take part in the famous television game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At stake is twenty million rupees.
But law enforcement officers decide to arrest the guy right in the middle of a TV show. They do not believe that Jamal answers all questions correctly without fraud. Subsequently, it turns out that the guy from the Indian slums had a difficult fate, in the course of which he got into difficult situations, and he took many answers to the TV game questions from them.
4. Always say yes. 
The main character of the picture, constantly suffering from depression, has a life credo - to say "no" to all people under any circumstances.
For example, friends call for a party: the guy says no. But one day this extraordinary man made a deal, under the terms of which he is obliged to say "yes" in all cases of his life ...
3. Reader
The main character of the film is an aging lonely lawyer Michael Berg, whose thoughts are constantly directed towards his past. Over the past 40 years, this man is tormented only by the fact that his life could be different, and he could also change the fate of the woman who was once close to him.
Does it make sense to live only in the past, which goes further and further away from man? But sometimes it happens that the events of bygone days remind of themselves today.
2. The Time Traveler's Wife
These people learned about the existence of each other when the man was 36 years old, and the girl was only 6. As a result, the grown 23-year-old beauty married the same man after he celebrated her 31st birthday.
In the course of the plot development, it turned out that the main character at the level of genetics has amazing processes associated with the movement in time. He may suddenly disappear, and then after a time appear in a tragicomic situation.
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Can you imagine that a person at birth was immediately 80 years old, and then he gradually began to look younger? With the main character of this tape happened exactly that. His life went on with a countdown.
This amazing story dates back to 1918 in New Orleans. World War I was ending, and Benjamin Button would have to go the hard way from aging to infancy ...
And what are the most interesting films that appeared on the screens in 2008, you know and love? Share the names of these pictures in the comments!
